![]() Lots of studies have been done around the effect of remote working on hours. Rather than being able to simply leave the building at the end of the day. ![]() Continual connectivity to the workplace, especially via smartphones, requires a conscious effort to ‘clock out’. Many remote workers find it hard to know when work begins and ends. Likewise, research by the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHLW, 2014), covering employees in 30 Japanese companies, found that 43.5% of respondents find it ‘difficult to draw a line between work and family life’.** ‘A survey by the Japanese Institute of Labour Policy and Training (JILPT, 2015) of workers in Japan shows that the issue of the ‘ambiguity of work and off’ was the highest ranked disadvantage of among both women (36.4%) and men (39.3%). One of the most common issues reported by remote working is the impact it has on hours.
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